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Kennedy talked, khrushchev triumphed
In his inaugural address address, President John F. Jack Kennedy expressed in two eloquent sentences, often invoked by Barack Obama, a policy that turned out to be one of his presidential term's - so one of the Cold War's - most consequential: " May 23 2008
Kenneth griffin, founder of citadel investment, bashes his peers
Kenneth Griffin, who runs one of the biggest and most successful hedge fund firms, has a blunt appraisal: "We, as an industry, dropped the ball." The dislocation happened, gryphon contends, when big investing banks gambled away money and jobs during May 14 2008
Kenya is abuzz about obama
From the working capital, Nairobi, to this bustling city near Barack Obama's ancestral home, Kenyans were abuzz mon about the man they see as a "son of the soil" - and ready to erupt in jubilation if he wins the U.S. Presidential election. In Ko Nov 4 2008
Kenyan opposition leader says france could serve as model for new power sharing deal
: Kenya's resistance leader said on Sabbatum that French Republic can serve as a model for Kenya because its political system has allowed rival political parties to work jointly in authorities. There are uncertainty about how well Raila Odinga, who l Mar 2 2008
Kenyan tourism suffering badly from violence
: Nancy Holan just had the campaign of her life. She and a friend flew to Kenya from Motor City and as they cruised the wide open field, they had the lions, zebra and elephants all to themselves. "It was wonderful," she said. Not far away, Isaac Rotich, a Mar 1 2008
Kenyans riot as negotiations break down
Riots erupted in Kenya on Tues as resistance leaders announced that they were suspending talks with the authorities over a stalled power-sharing understanding. According to witnesses, dozens of young men stormed into the streets of Kibera, a sprawl slum i Apr 9 2008
Khmer rouge victims given a voice in cambodia trials
If Sok Chear had her way, she would slice the elderly man into ribbons and pour salt into his lesion. She would beat him up and anguish him and give him electric automobile shocks to make him talk. For Ly Monysar, "Only violent death them will make m Jun 17 2008
Kimchi goes to space, along with first korean astronaut
: Koreans say they must eat kimchi wherever they are. When South Korea dispatched troops to the Socialist Republic of Vietnam War in the 1960s, tearful mothers sent off their sons with clay pots containing homemade kimchi. Soon troopships were filled with Feb 23 2008
King abdullah and the skeptics
The determination by King Abdullah of Saudi Arabian Peninsula to hold an interfaith conference under the auspices of the United Nations is bold, courageous and possibly far-reaching. To many people, especially in the West, his enterprise may seem unr Nov 13 2008
King of kitsch rules at versailles
An aluminium red lobster hangs from the ceiling alongside a crystal chandelier in the Mars Salon. A Plexiglas-encased display of vacuity cleaners and floor polishers sits in front of the functionary portrait of Marie Antoinette. And an open-mouthed, bare- Sep 11 2008
Korean war survivors tell of carnage inflicted by u.s.
When U.S. Troops stormed this island more than half a century ago, it was a hive of Communist trenches and pillboxes. Now it's a park where kid play and retirees stroll along a tree-shaded esplanade. From a brow across a narrow channel, full gen Jul 22 2008
Kosovo 1999 to georgia 2008
The nowadays crisis over South Ossetia has literally no parallels with the Cold War which it historically predates. To understand its nature it is good to train our binoculars on the last 10 years - not to seek out villains, but to piece jointly a se Sep 6 2008
Kosovo declares independence
: Kosovo declared independency from Srbija on Lord's Day, ending a long chapter in the damn breakup of Federal Republic of Yugoslavia. The announcement was made by leaders of the breaking away province's 90 percentage ethnic Albanian majority, includ Feb 18 2008
Kosovo's actions hearten a hungarian enclave
twelve of garland trailing ribbons in red, white and green, the colour of the Magyar flag, covered the base of a commemoration to the 1848 revolution in the town park here on a recent day. Deep in the heart of Roumania, just one lonely garland bears the s Apr 8 2008
Kosovo's ethnic albanians begin celebrations in anticipation of independence
: Ethnic Albanians in Kosovo took to streets late Fri to celebrate the declaration of independency from Srbija expected to come this weekend. People gathered in grouping in the fringe of the state's working capital Pristina, dance in circles to the b Feb 16 2008
Kostunica warns of treason on eve of serbian vote
As a arousal partisan conflict song played and torches flared up across a giant stage, the patriot prime curate of Srbija, Vojislav Kostunica, warned several thousand protagonist this week they would be caving in to high treason if they allowed a Srbija s May 10 2008
Krugman wins nobel in economics
Paul Krugman, a prof at Princeton University and an Op-Ed page editorialist for The New York Times and the International Herald Tribune, was awarded the Nobel commemoration Prize in Economic Science on mon. The prize commission cited Krugman for "ha Oct 14 2008
Kulwant roy: indian history in a yellow crate of negatives
The yellowness crates haunted Aditya Arya. A successful advertising lensman whose clients have ranged from India's luxury Oberoi Hotel chain to Soviet Union's Bolshoi Ballet, Arya inherited the crates from a household friend, an old photojournal Jun 18 2008
Kurdish oil deal with texas company is questioned
Bush disposal officials knew that a Texas oil company with close ties to President George W. Bush was planning to sign an oil deal with the regional Kurdistan authorities that runs counter to U.S. Policy and undercuts Iraq's telephone exchange govern Jul 4 2008
Kurds' attack kills 15 soldiers, turkey reports
15 Turkish soldiers were killed and at least 20 injured in an onslaught by Kurdish separatist rebels in the mountainous border area in eastern Turkey, the Turkish authorities said Sabbatum. The soldiers were killed Friday night in an onslaught on the Oct 5 2008 |